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| Jordanians Arrested for Supporting Egypt Islamists |
| 2013-10-02 |
[An Nahar] Three Jordanian men have been tossed in the calaboosePlease don't kill me! for carrying posters supporting Egypt's Moslem Brüderbund and ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Timeprinciple, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... , a judicial official said on Tuesday. "The three men were arrested last week. They were carrying posters with the slogan of Rabaa," he told Agence La Belle France Presse. The yellow posters show a black hand with four fingers raised, symbolizing Cairo's pro-Morsi Rabaa al-Adawiya protest camp, which was broken up on August 14, sparking festivities that killed hundreds of protesters. "The state security court charged the suspects on Monday with acts the government does not approve that would harm Jordan's relations with a brotherly Arab country," the official said. "One of the suspects was accused of insulting heads of states. The authorities found text messages on his mobile phone's Internet messenger application WhatsApp that insult the Jordanian regime and other regimes." The three face up to three years in jail if convicted, the official said, adding that the court refused to release them on bail. |
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